Honey bees are important pollinators. About 1/3 of our
fruit and vegetable supply depends upon bee pollination. Honey bees are the
most efficient pollinators for most crops. Other plants pollinated by
honey bees supply food for insects, birds, and small mammals.

How you can help

Buy organic - organic farmers care about bees

Practice organic gardening - pesticides are detrimental to bees

Plant bee forage - grow more herbs and flowers

Buy local honey - support your local beekeepers

Adopt a hive - or become a beekeeper

Let's work together to save the bees

If you encounter a bee swarm, please
call a local beekeeper to collect them. The beekeeper will humanely capture
them and give them a new home. Heathly bees produce swarms - it's how they
reproduce the colony. Such bees are survivors, and should be saved.
Left to their own, most swarms perish. Swarms may be lucky and find a hole in a tree,
but all too often they may inhabit your chimney, sprinkler box, toolshed, etc.